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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Vangeli Geshkovski, on 3 September 2026
How I started working on ULTRAPETALA1, the subject of a recent paper revealing how it influences plant development.Posted by Saurabh chand Sagar, on 1 September 2026
Small historic background: In an era when caspases are known as killer proteins, Drosophila Malpighian tubules state otherwise. Drosophila is a holometabolous insect, meaning that it goes through three life ...Posted by Shih-Lei (Ben) Lai, on 26 May 2026
In this Behind the paper story, Ben Lai tells us about a question that followed him for more than a decade.Posted by Maxwell Wilson, on 24 April 2026
Although Marianne and I first met at the Aspen Center for Physics, USA, in the summer of 2022, our scientific careers had, in a sense, been pre-slated to converge.Posted by Yinan Wan, on 2 April 2026
Yinan Wan shares the inside story of an ambitious journey to whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics.Posted by Alejo Torres Cano, on 28 January 2026
Alejo Torres Cano's story on their recent paper describing how spatially organized cellular communities shape...Posted by Stefanie Williams, on 10 November 2025
I was so excited when I received notification that my first first-author research paper was accepted. My excitement quickly turned into sadness with the realization that my co-PI was not ...Posted by Anne Schmidt, on 22 October 2025
Léa and I take turns sharing our exciting and fruitful collaboration aimed at tracking emerging and newly born hematopoietic stem cells to their implantation sites in developmental niches, using the ...Posted by Robin Journot, on 4 September 2025
Behind the paper story focussed on research on early fate decisions in bilayered epithelia.Posted by Isaia Vardanega, on 12 June 2025
Why do some grass species like rice have multiple grains developing on primary and secondary branches, while others like barley only have one 'spikelet' developing into a single grain?